The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-10

appearing. q uale after b o'oleck
several stalking figures alss appeared,
but they had ne connection with the
first spceter. When his mind had
become nsre composed and his phys
ical ailmeats removed by medi-
cal treatment, Moolsi expected these
apparitisns Of spirits would leave
him. But he was disappointed, fer
they multiplied in number aud un-
derwent the NEST extraordinary
transformations. The standing
specter of the person deceased never
appeared to him after the Oath Of
February, but several other figures
took its place. These figures were
chiefly those OF persons whom he did
net know, though he sometimes saw
those OF acquaintances. The figures
Of persons alive occurred more fire.
quently than those of persons whs
were dead, and he distinctly remark.
ed that the persons with whom he
daily oOnversed never appeared to
him as apparitions. When, after
some weeks, he had become familiar
with these unbidden guests, he en-
deavored to conjure up phantoms Of
his asqaaintances, he neVer oeuld
succeed m giving an external
locality.
TIKI sPooKs DESCRIBED.
When he was csnyersing with his
physician and his wife concerning
the phantasms which lowered around
him the figures sometimes left him
altogether, and again appeared either
singly or in groups. The apparitiops
were generally human figures Of both
sexes, who, like people at a fair,
passed to and fro, as if they had no
mutual connection, though they
sometimes appeared to have business
with each ether. On one or two oc-
casioHs he saw persons on horseback,
dogs and birds, all of which were OF
natural size and Of the same oelors
which they hayein real life. although
paler. When these spooks began to
be seen more frequently Nicolai be-
gan also to hear them speak. Some
times they addressed one another.
but more often they spoke to him in
short speeches, but they never said
anything disagreoable. This loquac-
ity occurred mostly when he
was alone, though he some
times heard It in society, inter
mixed with the actual talk of the
company. Although these appear
ances had ceased to excite any disa-
greeable emotion and had afforded
him amusement at times, yet as his
his disorder had sensibly increased,
and as the specters had appeared to
him whole days together and even
when awake at night, he found it
necessary 70 not only take medicine,
but to apply leeches. This was done
on the 10Th OF April at il o'clock in
the forenoon, and during the opera
ton, while he was sitting alone with
the surgeon. he rsem swarmed with
human FERNS Of every description,
which crowded fast upon one another
till 48o O'clock. The figures then
began to move more slowly their col
ors became gradually paler. and after
intervals of a few minutes he could
distinguish a palpable decrease Of
their intensity without any change
in the distinotncss OF their figures.
AT about $3.50 o'clock they be-
came entirely white and scarcely
moved. Their forms, however,
were perfectly distinct, and, with
out decreasing in number, they grad
ually became less perceptible. In
stead Of moving off or vanishing, as
they had usually dsne, they dissolved
Immediately into empty air. About
8 O'Clock not veStige OF them re-
NAMED, and kioolai was never again
disturbed by spectral illusions or Wis
itations Of spirits from the realms Of
the dead. III knew extremely well, !"
said he in his memoirs, "the differ
enco between the phantasms and real
figures, and there was no connection
between the figures and tho state Of
my mind" Is spirit naturalization
only spectral illusion which may DO
cured by medicine aud leeohes2